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<p>Wrapping up a two-day summit, leaders will strive to craft a statement on the uncontroversial parts of their agenda -- pushing for deeper economic integration.</p>
<p>But with just hours remaining, officials were still scrambling to forge enough of a consensus to issue a formal joint statement and were admiting privately that it might not be possible, amid yawning differences on trade policy.</p>
<p>The annual gathering has been overshadowed by speeches on Saturday from Chinese President Xi Jinping and US Vice President Mike Pence, which appeared to represent competing bids for regional leadership.</p>
<p>Pence warned smaller countries not to be seduced by China’s massive Belt-and-Road infrastructure programme, which sees Beijing offer money to poorer countries for construction and development projects.</p>
<p>The “opaque” loans come with strings attached and build up “staggering debt”, Pence charged, mocking the initiative as a “constricting belt” and a “one-way road”.</p>
<p>He urged nations instead to stick with the United States, which doesn’t “drown our partners in a sea of debt” or “coerce, corrupt or compromise your independence”.</p>
<p>In a speech to business leaders just minutes before Pence, Xi insisted the initiative was not a “trap” and there was no “hidden agenda” -- amid criticism that it amounts to “chequebook diplomacy” in the region.</p>
<p>Xi also lashed out at “America First” trade protectionism, saying it was a “short-sighted approach” that was “doomed to failure”.</p>
<p>The feisty barbs on a gleaming white cruise ship moored in Port Moresby set the scene for a potentially fiery meeting between Xi and US President Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Argentina at the end of this month.</p>
<p>But Xi and Pence, who both wore shiny, red shirts provided by the Pacific island did have a brief tete-a-tete Saturday night at the leaders’ gala dinner.</p>
<p>Some attendees voiced concern about the growing rivalry for influence in the region, with fears a trade war between the two rivals could cripple the Pacific Rim economy.</p>
<p>“Business leaders do not want to speak out, but behind the scenes here, they are talking over dinner saying ‘how has this happened’?” said Denis O’Brien, the billionaire chairman of Digicel.</p>
<p>“It’s a very forced situation, one country is trying to force all the other countries to change tariffs agreed over years,” O’Brien told AFP.</p>
<p>Trump -- and Russian President Vladimir Putin -- both decided to skip the gathering, leaving the spotlight on Xi who arrived two days early to open a Chinese-funded school and road in Papua New Guinea’s dirt-poor capital Port Moresby.</p>
<p>Xi has been the star of the show, front and centre at official photos whereas Pence has kept a lower profile, only deciding at the last minute to stay overnight in Port Moresby -- shelving original plans to fly in and out from Cairns in Australia.</p>
<p>As if to counter Chinese largesse, the US, Australia, New Zealand and Japan on Sunday announced a project to boost electricity capacity in Papua New Guinea. The project aims to raise the percentage of the PNG population with access to electricity from 13 percent to 70 percent. And as the US and China vie for influence in the region, the statement dangled the prospect of similar projects for countries that “support principles and values which help maintain and promote a free, open, prosperous and rules-based region.” With the official business of the summit relatively low-key, much of the focus has been on the unlikely venue of Port Moresby, which is hosting its first international event of this scale. The city is on lockdown with hundreds of police and military patrolling the streets of the notoriously crime-ridden capital. Warships are stationed just off the coast to provide security for the leaders, and delegates and media have been housed in enormous cruise ships due to a dearth of hotel rooms. - AFP</p>
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</script>Sun, 18 Nov 2018 12:29:55 +0000pushpika168805 at http://www.dailynews.lkNorth Korea tests new ‘ultramodern tactical weapon’http://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/17/world/168734/north-korea-tests-new-%E2%80%98ultramodern-tactical-weapon%E2%80%99
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<p>It marked the first official report of a weapons test by North Korea since it began a delicate diplomatic process with Washington over its nuclear and missile programme.</p>
<p>“Kim Jong Un... visited the test ground of the Academy of Defence Science and supervised a newly developed ultramodern tactical weapon test,” said the official Korean Central News Agency.</p>
<p>It said the test was successful but did not specify the type of device involved.</p>
<p>Pyongyang’s suspension of testing for nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles has been key to this year’s rapid diplomatic developments and North Korean-US negotiations, and has been repeatedly praised by President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Trump and Kim met at a historic summit in Singapore in June, where they signed a vaguely worded document on denuclearisation of the peninsula.</p>
<p>Hours after the KCNA report, the US State Department said it was “confident” the process remained on track.</p>
<p>“At the Singapore Summit, President Trump and Chairman Kim made a number of commitments regarding final, fully verified denuclearisation and creating a brighter future for North Korea,” a statement said.</p>
<p>“We are talking with the North Koreans about implementing all of those commitments. We remain confident that the promises made by President Trump and Chairman Kim will be fulfilled.” Progress since Singapore has stalled as Washington and Pyongyang spar over the meaning of the document, and a return to testing would cast grave doubts over the future of the process.</p>
<p>The use of the word “tactical” in the KCNA report suggests that no long-range ballistic rocket or nuclear device was involved, and there was no immediate indication any such test had been detected by the South.</p>
<p>“By referring to it as a ‘tactical weapon’, it is sending a message that (the test) is not an armed provocation,” an official at Seoul’s defence ministry told reporters.</p>
<p>“It’s not appropriate for our military to view it as a provocation when North Korea has confirmed it is a high-tech tactical weapon test,” he added.</p>
<p>Citing an unnamed government source, Yonhap news agency reported that the weapon tested was likely to be new long-range artillery developed under Kim’s father and predecessor Kim Jong Il.</p>
<p>KCNA released only one photograph to accompany its report, showing uniformed men taking notes as Kim talked. The background gave few clues to what kind of weapon was involved.</p>
<p>Kim expressed “great satisfaction” and said the test marked a “decisive turn in bolstering the fighting capacity” of the North’s military, KCNA said.</p>
<p>The weapon had been developed over a long period and its “great success serves as another striking demonstration of the validity of the Party policy of prioritising defence science and technology and the rapidly developing defence capability”, it added.</p>
<p>Shin Beom-chul, an analyst at the Asan Institute of Policy Studies, said the test was likely aimed at sending “a political message” to Washington about the current stalemate.</p>
<p>“Generally, tests of new high-tech weapons are conducted in secret,” Shin said. “But North Korea announced it publicly to show its frustration.” The news, which came almost a year after Pyongyang’s last test of an intercontinental ballistic missile, recalled the repeated announcements of 2017.</p>
<p>Those included by far North Korea’s most powerful nuclear blast to date and rockets that brought the whole of the US mainland into range.</p>
<p>Soon afterwards Kim declared the development of his nuclear arsenal -- which Pyongyang has long said it needs to defend itself against a possible invasion by the US -- complete.</p>
<p>The Winter Olympics in the South then triggered a rapid diplomatic rapprochement on the peninsula, heralding the Singapore meeting and three summits between Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.</p>
<p>A second encounter between Kim and Trump is expected in the new year.</p>
<p>But Pyongyang is demanding sanctions imposed against it over its weapons programmes are eased and has condemned US demands for what it calls its “unilateral” disarmament as “gangster-like”.</p>
<p>Washington insists the measures should stay in place until the North’s “final, fully verified” denuclearisation.</p>
<p>Professor Yang Moo-jin of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul told AFP the test was “a signal to the US sent ahead of the high-level talks that its own patience is also wearing thin”.- AFP</p>
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Fri, 16 Nov 2018 14:24:01 +0000malinga168734 at http://www.dailynews.lkMay wins Cabinet backing for Brexit dealhttp://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/16/world/168623/may-wins-cabinet-backing-brexit-deal
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<p>May emerged from a five-hour meeting with ministers that had sent the value of the pound gyrating to announce she had the government’s “collective” backing to move ahead with the plan.</p>
<p>“The collective decision of cabinet was that the government should agree the draft withdrawal agreement and the outline political declaration,” May said outside her Downing Street office.</p>
<p>A spokesman said the meeting ended without any explicit threats of resignation and everyone unwinding with a glass of wine and some snacks.</p>
<p>But the embattled leader conceded that she could face even stronger resistance when she takes the 585-page text to parliament for approval next month.</p>
<p>Rumours of ministers quitting and a plot by eurosceptic MPs in May’s own party to unseat her saw the pound plunge one percent in a wild hour of trading that ended with the currency on the upswing.</p>
<p>The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said the divorce was making “decisive progress” that still required “lots and lots of work”.</p>
<p>The blueprint agreed on Tuesday capped a year and a half of politically fraught negotiations aimed at unwinding nearly 46 years of British EU membership.</p>
<p>Its announcement saw May come under attack from both those backing a cleaner break with Europe and those dreading a future in which Britain strikes out on its own.</p>
<p>May’s government is split between the two camps -- as is parliament and much of the country.</p>
<p>The premier said she engaged in an “impassioned debate” with her ministers -- and that there “will be difficult days ahead”. But she added: “The choice before us is clear.</p>
<p>“This deal, which delivers on the vote of the (2016) referendum, which brings back control of our money, laws and borders, ends free movement, protects jobs, security and our union -- or leave with no deal, or no Brexit at all.” May did not explain how Brexit might still not happen on March 29 -- a possibility rooted on passionately by many of those who lost the 2016 vote by a 52-48 margin.</p>
<p>Barnier said the two sides had crucially found the right formula to avoid a “hard” border between British Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland -- the main sticking point in the talks.</p>
<p>The agreement sees the whole of Britain staying in a customs arrangement with the EU as a “backstop” if the two sides fail to reach a broader agreement within a 21-month transition.</p>
<p>EU Council president Donald Tusk’s office said he would give a Brexit statement on Thursday in which he could announce the date of a snap EU-UK summit the Irish aimed at finalising the deal.</p>
<p>Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said he expected the 28 leaders to meet on November 25.</p>
<p>Appearing before the House of Commons earlier Wednesday, May confronted the anger of lawmakers who may yet try to oust her government in the weeks to come.</p>
<p>Conservative Party MP Peter Bone, a leading eurosceptic, accused May of “not delivering the Brexit people voted for”.</p>
<p>In Boston, the town in England with the highest Brexit vote in Britain, residents agreed.</p>
<p>“It’s crap,” retiree Kathrine Denham, 74. “She’s reneging on everything we voted for.” More ominously, the Northern Irish party propping up May’s government threatened to break their alliance over leaks about a special arrangement for the British province.</p>
<p>Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster said she expected to be personally briefed about the deal by May, warning that “there will be consequences” if the leaks were true.</p>
<p>Northern Ireland would have special status under the backstop proposals, which would align it with the European single market.</p>
<p>This means that some checks will be required between Northern Ireland and the rest of the country on farm products and agriculture.</p>
<p>The arrangement has not gone down well in Scotland, where the pro-independence and europhile government also questioned the deal.</p>
<p>Its nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon asked why Northern Ireland should have a special status that would effectively keep it in the European single market while Scotland should not.</p>
<p>Importantly, its outlines won the backing of big business, whose support is vital for May as she tries to sell the plan.</p>
<p>The Confederation of British Industry said the draft “moves the UK one step away from the nightmare precipice”.</p>
<p>The governing body for London’s City financial district said the text “provides welcome clarity and a foundation for financial services”. - AFP</p>
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Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:44:58 +0000malinga168623 at http://www.dailynews.lkMerkel calls for European Armyhttp://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/15/world/168548/merkel-calls-european-army
<div class="field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/14/z_p18-Merkel.jpg"><a href="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/14/z_p18-Merkel.jpg" title="German Chancellor Angela Merkel" class="colorbox" data-colorbox-gallery="field_image_gallery-RcZXjS5hChs" data-cbox-img-attrs="{&quot;title&quot;: &quot;&quot;, &quot;alt&quot;: &quot;German Chancellor Angela Merkel&quot;}"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/14/z_p18-Merkel.jpg" width="800" height="427" alt="German Chancellor Angela Merkel" title="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-caption field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">German Chancellor Angela Merkel</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-articletags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/print-edition" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Print Edition</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>FRANCE:</strong> German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Tuesday for an integrated European Union military, echoing language used by French President Emmanuel Macron last week that infuriated U.S. President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Merkel told the European Parliament such an army would not undermine the U.S.-led military alliance NATO but would be complementary to it, remarks that were met with loud applause in the legislature though also with boos from nationalist members.</p>
<p>“The times when we could rely on others are over. This means we Europeans have to take our fate fully into our own hands,” Merkel said. “We should work on a vision of one day establishing a real European army.”</p>
<p>Macron’s call, which reflected a broad trend of EU thinking but is not universally accepted, was meant to show European willingness to meet U.S. demands that Europe do more for its own security and rely less on America’s security umbrella. However, on Twitter on November 9, Trump accused Macron of seeking to develop the EU’s own military to defend itself from the United States, which EU and French officials said was a misunderstanding. On Tuesday Trump took aim at Macron again, blasting France over its near-defeat to Germany in two world wars, its wine industry and Macron’s approval ratings.</p>
<p>In his remarks on November 6, Macron had been referring to computer hackers who could attack Europe from anywhere, including from inside the United States, officials said.</p>
<p>First proposed in the 1950s and taken up four years ago by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker as a response to fraying EU unity, an EU armed forces is seen as strengthening the global power of the bloc, which is an economic giant but a geopolitical minnow.</p>
<p>With Britain’s pending departure from the EU, there may be more momentum for remaining member states to find common ground on defense, although there remain divisions. Supporters of a European defense union say the EU has struggled in military and humanitarian missions in the Balkans, Libya and Africa, and that it was caught off guard by Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Merkel’s address comes at a time when the EU is searching for answers to a U.S. president who views the EU with contempt, to the rise of illiberal democracies and nationalist parties within its borders, and to Britain’s vote to leave the bloc.</p>
<p>She made appeals for tolerance and solidarity, saying “nationalism and egotism should no longer have a place in Europe” to a sustained applause. As a deadline looms for Italy’s euroskeptic government to re-submit budget plans to the European Union, Merkel said the euro zone would only work if all member states meet their treaty responsibilities.</p>
<p>“Our common currency can only function if every individual member fulfils their responsibility for sustainable finances,” Merkel said, adding that otherwise the strength and the stability of the euro zone were at risk.</p>
<p>“We want to extend a hand to Italy,” she later said. “But Italy also agreed to all sorts of rules and it can’t just tear them up.”</p>
<p>Merkel dominated European politics for over a decade, but she is now a diminished force, weakened by the fragility of her coalition and the rise of the far-right in Germany. She announced in late October that she would step down as leader of her party, though remain chancellor.</p>
<p>Her foot-dragging over far-reaching reforms to the eurozone has frustrated the energetic Macron. In the summer, they agreed to a budget for the single currency area but failed to deliver any big-bang reforms. Few concrete steps have been taken since.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, she kept her vision for deeper monetary cooperation vague: “We need to develop our monetary policy better. We’re working on a banking union,” she said. “We have to look at responsibility and control, a banking union and then later a European insurance system.”</p>
<p>Merkel also trained her sights on Poland and Hungary, two countries whose leaders other member states worry are undercutting democratic institutions. The European Parliament in September voted to sanction Hungary for flouting EU rules on democracy, civil rights and corruption, while concerns have grown in the EU over Warsaw’s accelerated judicial overhaul.</p>
<p>“Solidarity is always linked to commitments of the community, and the principles based on rule of law,” Merkel said. - VOA</p>
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Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:29:59 +0000malinga168548 at http://www.dailynews.lk German prosecutors probing ‘illegal’ donations to AfDhttp://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/14/world/168468/german-prosecutors-probing-%E2%80%98illegal%E2%80%99-donations-afd
<div class="field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-articletags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/print-edition" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Print Edition</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>German prosecutors are looking into foreign campaign donations made to the far-right AfD party ahead of the last election, Der Spiegel weekly reported Tuesday, as pressure grows on co-leader Alice Weidel over the alleged illegal payments.</p>
<p>“Following press reports, the public prosecutor's office of Lake Constance is examining whether there are indications for possible criminal acts,” a spokesman told Spiegel.</p>
<p>Prosecutors could not immediately be reached for comment when contacted by AFP.</p>
<p>German media at the weekend reported that the Lake Constance branch of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party received a total of 18 donations from a Swiss pharmaceutical firm between July and September 2017, to the tune of 150,000 Swiss francs (around 130,000 euros).</p>
<p>Under German law, campaign donations from non-EU countries are illegal.</p>
<p>The payments reportedly came with the message “campaign donation Alice Weidel”.</p>
<p>Lake Constance is the southern German district where top AfD figure Weidel was standing in the 2017 election, which saw huge gains for the anti-Islam, anti-immigrant party.</p>
<p>She is now co-leader of the AfD's parliamentary group.</p>
<p>Weidel, who divides her time between Germany and Switzerland where her partner and children live, said she had no information about the campaign donor and stressed that the money was later repaid.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, politicians from other parties have been lining up to condemn her handling of the affair.</p>
<p>Lawmaker Britta Hasselmann from the opposition Greens accused Weidel of “playing the public for fools” by claiming she was unaware that foreign donations were illegal.</p>
<p>MP Johannes Kars of the Social Democrats, Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior coalition partner, said if the money is confirmed to have violated spending laws then Weidel “should resign”.</p>
<p>Anti-corruption group Transparency International urged Weidel to explain when exactly she learned of the “improper” payments and what action was taken.</p>
<p>The Bundestag federal parliament has also asked the AfD to explain the payments.</p>
<p>The Swiss company behind the donations told German media it was acting on behalf of “a business friend” but declined to name names.</p>
<p>- AFP</p>
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Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:15:52 +0000Nalaka.Fonseka168468 at http://www.dailynews.lk Macron advisor says Trump tweets ‘written for Americans’http://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/14/world/168467/macron-advisor-says-trump-tweets-%E2%80%98written-americans%E2%80%99
<div class="field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-articletags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/print-edition" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Print Edition</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>An advisor to Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday dismissed a flurry of angry tweets from US President Donald Trump about his French counterpart, saying they were “written for Americans”.</p>
<p>Macron's office declined to officially comment on the tweets, which come two days after Trump was Macron's guest at World War I centenary commemorations in Paris.</p>
<p>In the tweets, Trump criticises Macron's calls for closer EU defence integration, mocks his low approval ratings and attacks EU tariffs on US wine.</p>
<p>One of Macron's advisors brushed the tweets aside, saying they were “written for Americans -- otherwise they would not be written in English”.</p>
<p>“It's not for us to comment on content meant for his citizens,” said the advisor, declining to be named, adding that relations between Macron and Trump were “not always easy but are enduring”.</p>
<p>He pointed out that the pair had held talks during Trump's trip to Paris last weekend for World War I centenary commemorations, during which they attempted to defuse the row over defence.</p>
<p>“Donald Trump was among the first to arrive in Paris, where he reserved his first meeting for President Macron. These gestures have much greater value than tweets -- we know how and why they're written,” the advisor added.</p>
<p>“Beyond tweets, what matters is that they speak several times a week about issues affecting the direction of the world.” Trump had launched a first broadside against Macron on arriving in Paris last weekend, labelling the French president's call for a “real European army”, and his characterisation of the United States as a potential security risk, as “insulting”. - AFP</p>
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Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:15:02 +0000Nalaka.Fonseka168467 at http://www.dailynews.lk CNN sues White House over barring of reporterhttp://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/14/world/168466/cnn-sues-white-house-over-barring-reporter
<div class="field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-articletags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/print-edition" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Print Edition</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>CNN sued Donald Trump's administration Tuesday, alleging the White House violated journalist Jim Acosta's constitutional rights by revoking his press credentials following a heated exchange with the US president.</p>
<p>The row on live national television and Acosta's resulting banishment triggered a wave of accusations that Trump is stifling the free press, and marked a sharp escalation in tensions between the president and CNN, a frequent target of his ire.</p>
<p>“The wrongful revocation of these credentials violates CNN and Acosta's First Amendment rights of freedom of the press, and their Fifth Amendment rights to due process,” the news network said in a statement that announced the lawsuit filed in a Washington federal court.</p>
<p>“We have asked this court for an immediate restraining order requiring the pass be returned to Jim, and will seek permanent relief as part of this process,” CNN said, warning that Acosta's credential suspension could set precedent for future attacks on o - AFP</p>
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Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:14:17 +0000Nalaka.Fonseka168466 at http://www.dailynews.lk UK says ‘small number’ of issues remain for Brexit dealhttp://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/14/world/168465/uk-says-%E2%80%98small-number%E2%80%99-issues-remain-brexit-deal
<div class="field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-articletags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/print-edition" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Print Edition</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>EU: officials published a contingency plan on Tuesday for a 'no-deal' Brexit as negotiators scrambled to secure agreement in the next 24 hours, even as Britain said there were still a “small number” of issues to resolve.</p>
<p>In one measure, Brussels said it will offer visa-free travel within the bloc to Britons, but warned this was “entirely conditional on the UK also granting reciprocal and non-discriminatory visa-free travel to EU citizens travelling to the UK”.</p>
<p>After British and EU negotiators spent another night locked in talks, Prime Minister Theresa May told her cabinet in London that there had been progress but no text was yet ready for approval.</p>
<p>The value of the pound rose after May's deputy David Lidington told the BBC earlier on Tuesday that a deal was “still possible, but not definite” by Wednesday evening.</p>
<p>British officials say a deal must be agreed by then if Brussels is to call an extraordinary European Union summit later this month to sign off the agreement.</p>
<p>Failure means delaying the deal until a summit in mid-December, leaving little time for May to get it through a fractious House of Commons before Brexit day on March 29.</p>
<p>“The prime minister told cabinet that since it has last met (a week ago), negotiations had continued in Brussels and good progress had made,” May's spokesman said.</p>
<p>“However the prime minister said there remained a small number of outstanding issues as the UK pushes for the best text which can be negotiated.” A government official said “it's closer than it was yesterday”.</p>
<p>Lidington also on Tuesday promised the government would publish legal analysis on any divorce agreement after it is announced, following pressure from the main opposition Labour Party.</p>
<p>Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, a leading eurosceptic who quit the government in July over May's plan, accused the prime minister of theatrics.</p>
<p>“No one is fooled by this theatre. Delay after staged managed delay. A deal will be reached and it will mean surrender by the UK,” he tweeted.</p>
<p>The talks with Brussels are stuck on how to avoid border checks between British Northern Ireland and Ireland after the UK leaves the EU's single market and customs union.</p>
<p>London suggests that until a wider trade deal is agreed that resolves the problem, Britain could temporarily stay aligned with the bloc's trade rules -- as long as it can exit the arrangement when it wants.</p>
<p>The EU appears only ready to accept that if Britain agrees another fall-back option in which Northern Ireland alone remains part of the single market.</p>
<p>May's Northern Irish allies in the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), strongly oppose this, arguing that it undermines the integrity of the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>Pro-Brexit MPs like Johnson also fear Britain could end up being locked in an endless customs union with the EU.</p>
<p>Opposition in Parliament to May's plan has raised fears the Brexit deal will be rejected and Britain will leave the EU without any agreement.</p>
<p>The cabinet received an update on Britain's preparedness for a “no deal” scenario, as it has for several weeks now, with speculation that the moment to trigger the plans is fast approaching.</p>
<p>Leading food manufacturer Premier Foods revealed on Tuesday it will start stockpiling ingredients.</p>
<p>“In the absence of certainty over the arrangements for the UK's departure from the EU, the group shortly intends to start a process of building stocks of raw materials to protect the company against the risk of delays at ports,” it said.</p>
<p>Elements of the divorce deal already agreed include Britain's exit bill of around 39 billion (45 billion euros, $50 billion) as well as a guarantee on EU citizens' rights.</p>
<p>May has guaranteed Europeans living in Britain that they will be able to stay after Brexit, no matter what.</p>
<p>But new figures show the number of EU nationals working in Britain fell by 132,000 to 2.25 million, the largest annual fall since comparable records began in 1997. The divorce deal also provides for a 21-month transition after Brexit during which London would follow EU rules, in which both sides can negotiate a new trade relationship. - AFP</p>
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Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:13:29 +0000Nalaka.Fonseka168465 at http://www.dailynews.lkNorth Korea ‘hiding missile bases’- Studyhttp://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/14/world/168438/north-korea-%E2%80%98hiding-missile-bases%E2%80%99-study
<div class="field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/13/z_p17-North.jpg"><a href="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/13/z_p17-North.jpg" title="Pyongyang’s missile programme is moving forward at small undeclared sites, says new report." class="colorbox" data-colorbox-gallery="field_image_gallery-RcZXjS5hChs" data-cbox-img-attrs="{&quot;title&quot;: &quot;&quot;, &quot;alt&quot;: &quot;Pyongyang’s missile programme is moving forward at small undeclared sites, says new report.&quot;}"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/13/z_p17-North.jpg" width="800" height="450" alt="Pyongyang’s missile programme is moving forward at small undeclared sites, says new report." title="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-caption field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Pyongyang’s missile programme is moving forward at small undeclared sites, says new report.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-articletags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/print-edition" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Print Edition</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>US: </strong>North Korea is operating at least 13 undeclared bases to hide mobile, nuclear-capable missiles, a new study asserted Monday, as progress stalls on US President Donald Trump’s signature foreign policy initiative.</p>
<p>Trump has hailed his June summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as having opened the way to the North’s denuclearization, defusing tensions that less than a year ago brought the two countries to the brink of conflict.</p>
<p>Since the summit in Singapore, North Korea has forgone nuclear and missile tests, dismantled a missile test site and promised to also break up the country’s main nuclear complex if the US makes concessions.</p>
<p>But researchers at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington said they had located 13 missile operating bases that had not been declared by the government, and that there may be as many as 20.</p>
<p>“It’s not like these bases have been frozen,” Victor Cha, who leads CSIS’s North Korea program, told The New York Times, which first reported on the study and headlined its findings as suggesting a “great deception” by Pyongyang.</p>
<p>“Work is continuing,” said Cha, who was once in line to be the US ambassador to Seoul. “What everybody is worried about is that Trump is going to accept a bad deal -- they give us a single test site and dismantle a few other things, and in return they get a peace agreement.” But the South Korean government and analysts played down the report, saying that the facilities had been known about for years and Pyongyang had never offered to give them up.</p>
<p>The bases are scattered across the country in underground facilities tunneled in narrow mountain valleys, according to the CSIS researchers, and designed for mobile missile launchers to quickly exit and move to previously prepared launch sites.</p>
<p>Bases for strategic weapons such as intercontinental ballistic missiles -- whose development is the subject of sanctions -- are located deep inside the country.</p>
<p>Medium-range missiles capable of striking Japan and all of South Korea reportedly are deployed in an operational belt 55 to 100 miles (90 to 150 kilometers) north of the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula.</p>
<p>Shorter-range missiles fit into a tactical belt 30 to 55 miles from the DMZ.</p>
<p>The researchers’ findings were based on satellite imagery, defector interviews and interviews with intelligence and government officials.</p>
<p>The South Korean government and analysts played down the report, saying there was “not much new” about the findings.</p>
<p>“I don’t see a kind of ground breaking or new information really,” said Daniel Pinkston, a lecturer at Troy University in Seoul, adding the Sakkanmol site the report highlighted “has been known for a long time, for at least 20 years”.</p>
<p>Vipin Narang of MIT tweeted: “Kim literally ordered ballistic missiles to be mass produced on New Year’s day 2018.</p>
<p>“He never offered to stop producing them, let alone give them up,” he added, saying that “the characterization of ‘deception’ is highly misleading.</p>
<p>There’s no deal to violate.” The South’s presidential office said intelligence authorities in Seoul and Washington had already been aware of the information in the report and added the Sakkanmol base had “nothing to do with inter-continental ballistic missiles”.</p>
<p>“North Korea never promised to get rid of short-range missiles or to shut down related missile bases,” Presidential spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom told reporters.</p>
<p>- AFP</p>
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Tue, 13 Nov 2018 15:04:18 +0000malinga168438 at http://www.dailynews.lkSeveral California infernos bring more deathshttp://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/13/world/168265/several-california-infernos-bring-more-deaths
<div class="field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/12/z_p17-Several.jpg"><a href="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/12/z_p17-Several.jpg" title="The Camp Fire burns along a ridge top near Big Bend, California. " class="colorbox" data-colorbox-gallery="field_image_gallery-RcZXjS5hChs" data-cbox-img-attrs="{&quot;title&quot;: &quot;&quot;, &quot;alt&quot;: &quot;The Camp Fire burns along a ridge top near Big Bend, California. &quot;}"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/12/z_p17-Several.jpg" width="800" height="448" alt="The Camp Fire burns along a ridge top near Big Bend, California. " title="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-caption field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">The Camp Fire burns along a ridge top near Big Bend, California. </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-articletags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/print-edition" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Print Edition</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>US: The number of dead in a wildfire raging in California has reached 29, matching the deadliest in the state’s history as recovery teams found six more bodies in the grim search through the wreckage.</p>
<p>The “Camp Fire” -- in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains north of Sacramento -- is the largest and most destructive of several infernos that have sent 250,000 people fleeing their homes across the tinder-dry state, razing 6,400 homes in the town of Paradise and effectively wiping it off the map.</p>
<p>At least 31 people have died in fire zones in north and south California, where acrid smoke blanketed the sky for miles, the sun barely visible.</p>
<p>On the ground, cars caught in the flames were reduced to scorched metal skeletons, while homes were left as smoldering piles of debris, with an occasional brick wall or chimney remaining.</p>
<p>Scores of people remain unaccounted for, and several fire-affected areas have been left without cell phone service.</p>
<p>The Camp Fire has the grisly distinction of matching the 1933 Griffith Park disaster in Los Angeles -- until now the single deadliest wildfire on record, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire).</p>
<p>Fanned by strong winds, the “Camp Fire” has scorched 111,000 acres (45000 hectares) and is 25 percent contained, Cal Fire said. So far, three of the more than 4,000 firefighters deployed have been injured. Almost 6,000 miles away, President Donald Trump, in France for World War I commemorations on Sunday, drew fierce criticism for an unsympathetic reaction to the devastation.</p>
<p>“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” Trump tweeted, threatening to withdraw federal support.</p>
<p>Brian Rice, the head of the California Professional Firefighters, slammed the tweet as “ill-informed, ill-timed and demeaning to those who are suffering as well as the men and women on the front lines.”</p>
<p>Singer Miley Cyrus’s home was one of the destroyed southern California buildings.</p>
<p>“Completely devestated (sic) by the fires affecting my community. I am one of the lucky ones. My animals and LOVE OF MY LIFE made it out safely &amp; that’s all that matters right now,” she tweeted.</p>
<p>“My house no longer stands but the memories shared with family &amp; friends stand strong.” Many of the wealthy area’s residents own horses, and for the past days Twitter has been filled with messages of people seeking and offering help.</p>
<p>Actor James Wood, a rare political conservative in liberal Hollywood, has made new friends by using his Twitter account to help find missing people and getting help for pets, including horses.</p>
<p>“Please think about fostering #pets while evacuees are dealing with the crisis. Los Angeles #animal shelters are mostly filled, so follow my hashtags, and see if someone in need is someone you can help!” read one of his tweets.</p>
<p>The Ventura County Humane Society said it was “deeply humbled by a $100,000 donation from Sandra Bullock and family” to rescue and care for animals evacuated from the fires. - AFP</p>
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Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:51:16 +0000pushpika168265 at http://www.dailynews.lkParadise lost in raging California fireshttp://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/12/world/168142/paradise-lost-raging-california-fires
<div class="field field-name-field-bot-strap field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">25 dead, Over 250,000 evacuated, over 6,700 buildings destroyed</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/11/z_p17-Paradise-01.jpg"><a href="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/11/z_p17-Paradise-01.jpg" title="A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through the town of Paradise, California." class="colorbox" data-colorbox-gallery="field_image_gallery-RcZXjS5hChs" data-cbox-img-attrs="{&quot;title&quot;: &quot;&quot;, &quot;alt&quot;: &quot;A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through the town of Paradise, California.&quot;}"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/11/z_p17-Paradise-01.jpg" width="800" height="450" alt="A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through the town of Paradise, California." title="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-caption field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">A home burns as the Camp Fire rages through the town of Paradise, California.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-articletags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/print-edition" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Print Edition</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>US: Rescue workers recovered multiple bodies on Saturday from the charred remains of residences in a California town ravaged by the most destructive fire to hit the US state.</p>
<p>Firefighters are battling raging blazes at both ends of California, but there is little hope of containing the flames anytime soon.</p>
<p>More than 250,000 people have been ordered to evacuate a wide area near the state capital Sacramento and, in southern California, the Hollywood resort town of Malibu.</p>
<p>In the town of Paradise, in Butte County, rescuers removed remains over a period of several hours and placed them in a black hearse. Pieces of bodies were transported by bucket, while intact remains were carried in body bags.</p>
<p>So far, all the dead have been reported in Paradise, where more than 6,700 buildings -- most of them residences -- have been consumed by the late-season inferno.</p>
<p>US President Donald Trump put the death toll at 25 on Saturday evening -- a count that seemed set to rise with bodies being recovered in Paradise.</p>
<p>“Our hearts are with those fighting the fires, the 52,000 who have evacuated, and the families of the 11 who have died,” Trump tweeted.</p>
<p>From miles around, acrid smoke could be seen in the sky around Paradise, the sun barely visible. On the ground, cars were reduced to metal carcasses, while power lines were also gnawed by the flames.</p>
<p>Locals fled the danger, but police told AFP some farmers returned to check on their cattle.</p>
<p>“The magnitude of destruction we have seen is really unbelievable and heartbreaking, and our hearts go to everybody who has been affected by this,” said Mark Ghilarducci, the director of the California Office of Emergency Services.</p>
<p>Governor-elect Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency to provide assistance to the hardest-hit areas in the fire-prone state.</p>
<p>The fast-moving blaze in the north, which authorities have named the “Camp Fire,” broke out early Thursday.</p>
<p>Fanned by strong winds, it has so far scorched 100,000 acres (40,500 hectares) and is 20 percent contained, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) said Saturday. So far, three of the more than 3,200 firefighters deployed have been injured.</p>
<p>They estimate they will need three weeks to fully contain the blaze.</p>
<p>Local power authorities have told state officials an outage occurred near the spot where the fire erupted, The Sacramento Bee reported, but there is still no official cause of the Camp blaze.</p>
<p>Trump, who was in France for World War I commemorations, drew criticism online for his somewhat unsympathetic reaction to the devastation earlier on Saturday.</p>
<p>“There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor,” Trump tweeted.</p>
<p>“Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more Fed payments!”</p>
<p>In southern California, more wildfires burned, including one just north of Los Angeles and another in Ventura County near Thousand Oaks, where a Marine Corps veteran shot dead 12 people in a country music bar on Wednesday.</p>
<p>Authorities said some 200,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders, including the entire city of Malibu.</p>
<p>The “Woolsey Fire” had consumed around 69,000 acres, destroyed at least 150 homes and was so far not contained, the Ventura County Fire Department said, adding that evacuation orders were issued for some 88,000 homes in the county and neighboring Los Angeles County.</p>
<p>“We heard this was coming so we set up the sprinklers and we hosed the whole house down,” said Malibu resident Patrick Henry. “We pretty much had enough time to get the dogs in the trunk.”</p>
<p>Malibu is one of the most in-demand locations in California for stars seeking privacy and luxury.</p>
<p>Reality TV star Kim Kardashian West, who lives just north of coastal Malibu, revealed she was forced to flee her home.</p>
<p>“I heard the flames have hit our property at our home in Hidden Hills but now are more contained and have stopped at the moment,” she said on Twitter. “I just pray the winds are in our favor.”</p>
<p>Actor Martin Sheen, briefly reported missing by his actor son Charlie, was also forced to evacuate.</p>
<p>“We’re fine, we’re at Zuma Beach and we’re probably going to sleep in the car tonight,” Martin Sheen told Fox News 11, adding that it was the worst fire he had seen in 48 years of living in Malibu.</p>
<p>The wildfire reached Paramount Ranch, destroying the Western Town sets used for hundreds of productions including HBO’S sci-fi western “Westworld,” officials and the network said.</p>
<p>Director Guillermo del Toro tweeted that Bleak House, his museum of horror movie memorabilia, was also in the path of the flames.</p>
<p>In Paradise, the flames destroyed hundreds of homes, a hospital, a gas station, several restaurants and numerous vehicles, officials said.</p>
<p>Mandatory evacuation orders were issued for more than 52,000 people in the scenic area in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.</p>
<p>“The whole lower side of Paradise is totally engulfed in flames right now,” Kevin Winstead, a resident of nearby Magalia, told KIEM TV.</p>
<p>“Not one home will be left standing,” he said. “I’m devastated.”</p>
<p>The National Weather Service said Saturday strong winds and dry conditions were to continue through the weekend.- AFP </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/11/z_p17-Paradise-02.jpg" class="colorbox-load" rel="field_image_gallery"><img alt="" src="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/resize/news/2018/11/11/z_p17-Paradise-02-790x415.jpg" style="margin: 3px; height: 415px; width: 790px;" width="790" height="415" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:12px;">Firefighters monitor a backfire near Middletown, California. The fast-moving fire has consumed 50,000 acres after<br />growing 40,000 acres in twelve hours.</span></p>
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Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:30:40 +0000pushpika168142 at http://www.dailynews.lkDelhi bans trucks as megacity chokeshttp://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/10/world/168041/delhi-bans-trucks-megacity-chokes
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<p>With levels of air pollution classed as “hazardous”, the restriction on the nearly 40,000 medium and heavy lorries that enter Delhi every day was imposed late Thursday.</p>
<p>The transport ministry said that vehicles carrying food and other essentials were exempted, while appealing to private owners of diesel sports utility vehicles (SUVs) to leave their cars at home.</p>
<p>Delhi’s air quality typically worsens in winter, as clouds of smoke from farmers’ fires billow into the city and mix with industrial and traffic emissions to form a noxious cocktail.</p>
<p>On Wednesday night Delhites largely defied a court order and set off an immense barrage of smoke-spewing firecrackers to celebrate the major Hindu festival of Diwali, sending pollution levels soaring.</p>
<p>On Friday, levels of particulates 2.5 micrometres or less in diameter, the most harmful to human health, peaked at 845, according to the US embassy website that monitors air quality independently.</p>
<p>The “hazardous” figure is roughly 33 times the World Health Organization safe limit of 25 and health experts advise people to stay indoors or use masks for protection.</p>
<p>Vehicles on Delhi roads generate roughly 20 percent of these tiny particles in air, which can be absorbed into the bloodstream and which are linked to chronic bronchitis, lung cancer and heart disease.</p>
<p>Authorities in the previous years have rationed private car use and imposed shutdowns on industrial units and coal-run power plants, as well as taxes on lorries to discourage them from using Delhi as a transit route. Delhi was among 14 Indian cities that figured in a list of the 20 most polluted cities across the globe this year issued by the WHO.- AFP</p>
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Fri, 09 Nov 2018 12:03:10 +0000malinga168041 at http://www.dailynews.lk Woman who spent 16m at Harrods bailedhttp://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/09/world/168019/woman-who-spent-16m-harrods-bailed
<div class="field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-articletags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/print-edition" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Print Edition</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>An Azerbaijani woman who spent 16 million at London's up-market Harrods department store and was the first to be targeted by new British legislation on “unexplained wealth” was freed on bail Thursday as she fights an extradition request by Baku.</p>
<p>Zamira Hajiyeva, who was arrested last week in London, faces two charges of embezzlement in Azerbaijan.</p>
<p>She was held in custody after Baku appealed against a magistrate's court decision granting her 500,000 ($655,000/573,000 euro) bail, arguing she was a flight risk.</p>
<p>But judge Jeremy Baker at London's High Court ruled there were not “substantial grounds” to believe she would leave the country.</p>
<p>He ordered her release but imposed a curfew under which she will not be allowed to leave her luxury home in southwest London between 9 pm and 6 am.</p>
<p>Hajiyeva, who was not in court, must also report to a central London police station every day, has surrendered her passport and is banned from travelling outside London's M25 ring road.</p>
<p>Hajiyev's husband Jahangir was jailed in 2016 for embezzling money from the International Bank of Azerbaijan, where he was chairman.</p>
<p>Separately, she is under scrutiny by Britain's National Crime Agency, who issued a so-called Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) demanding that she explain where she got the 11.5 million to pay for her property in Knightsbridge.</p>
<p>The court issuing the order also heard that she had spent more than 16 million at Harrods over a 10-year period.</p>
<p>UWOswere incorporated into British law in January 2018 as part of the fight against money laundering.</p>
<p>People who fail to account for the sources of their funds are liable to have assets seized.</p>
<p>- AFP</p>
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Thu, 08 Nov 2018 17:19:40 +0000Nalaka.Fonseka168019 at http://www.dailynews.lkTrump to Democrats: ‘Let’s work together’http://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/09/world/167959/trump-democrats-%E2%80%98let%E2%80%99s-work-together%E2%80%99
<div class="field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/08/z_p17-Trump.jpg"><a href="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/08/z_p17-Trump.jpg" title="House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California smiles as she is cheered by a crowd of Democratic supporters during an election night returns event at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, on Tuesday." class="colorbox" data-colorbox-gallery="field_image_gallery-RcZXjS5hChs" data-cbox-img-attrs="{&quot;title&quot;: &quot;&quot;, &quot;alt&quot;: &quot;House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California smiles as she is cheered by a crowd of Democratic supporters during an election night returns event at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, on Tuesday.&quot;}"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.dailynews.lk/sites/default/files/news/2018/11/08/z_p17-Trump.jpg" width="800" height="410" alt="House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California smiles as she is cheered by a crowd of Democratic supporters during an election night returns event at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, on Tuesday." title="" /></a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-image-caption field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California smiles as she is cheered by a crowd of Democratic supporters during an election night returns event at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, on Tuesday.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-articletags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/print-edition" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Print Edition</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p><strong>US:</strong> US President Donald Trump urged Democrats on Wednesday to “put partisanship aside” as he bluntly warned them against using their newfound control of the US House of Representatives to tie up his administration in investigations.</p>
<p>“It was a big day yesterday, an incredible day,” Trump said following Tuesday’s midterm election in which Republicans lost the House but increased their hold on the Senate.</p>
<p>“I think people like the job I’m doing,” Trump told a free-wheeling news conference at the White House which featured several acrimonious exchanges with reporters.</p>
<p>Democrats will have around 229 seats in the 435-member House, while Republicans will hold 53 seats in the 100-member Senate, up from 51, according to projections by The New York Times.</p>
<p>Trump offered an olive branch to Democrats, praising their leader and likely next House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and saying “I really believe that we have the chance to get along really well with the Democrats.” “It is time for members of both parties to join together, put partisanship aside, and keep the American economic miracle going strong.” Trump cited health care and infrastructure as areas where the two parties could work together.</p>
<p>But the President warned he would not hesitate to retaliate if House Democrats use their committee powers in the next Congress to investigate members of his administration or his personal finances.</p>
<p>“They can play that game,” he said. “All you are going to do is end up in back and forth and back and forth.</p>
<p>“I think that I am better at that game then they are actually,” he said.</p>
<p>“Or we can work together,” he said, adding that “it really could be a beautiful bipartisan type of situation.”</p>
<p>Trump also dismissed the suggestion he could move to end Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation of whether his 2016 election campaign colluded with Russia to get him into the White House.</p>
<p>“I could fire everybody right now, but I don’t want to stop it because politically I don’t like stopping it,” Trump said, calling the probe a “hoax” and a “disgrace.” “It should never have been started because there was no crime,” he said. “There’s no collusion.”</p>
<p>Trump reeled off a shopping list of disadvantages he claimed that the Republicans had faced going into Tuesday’s vote, including “wealthy donors and special interests” for the Democrats, and “very hostile media coverage.”Republicans backed by the White House defeated Democratic senators in several states won by Trump in 2016 -- Florida, Indiana, Missouri and North Dakota.</p>
<p>The Republican Senate candidate was also leading in Arizona while Democrats picked up a Republican Senate seat in Nevada.</p>
<p>Democrats gained seven governorships but fell short in a high-profile race in Florida, which -- as Trump noted on Wednesday -- is expected to play a key role in the 2020 presidential election.</p>
<p>With the House victory, Democrats will take over committees, giving them the power to hold hearings, call witnesses and issue subpoenas to administration officials.</p>
<p>“We will conduct the investigations that Republicans wouldn’t conduct,” Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell of California said on NBC’s “Today” show.</p>
<p>“We’ll fill in the gaps on the Russia investigations,” he said of the Mueller probe. “American people will see (Trump’s) tax returns.”</p>
<p>Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said he expected the president would be able to work with a divided Congress.</p>
<p>“The Senate is a pretty collegial place and even though we had big differences over things like taxes and judges, there were plenty of other things we did together and no reason that would stop simply because the House now becomes Democratic,” he said.</p>
<p>“We’re certainly going to try to help the president achieve what he would like with the (US-Mexico) wall,” McConnell said.</p>
<p>Pelosi, who is likely to return as House speaker despite opposition from some centrist Democrats, promised that the party will serve as a counterweight -- but also work with Trump.</p>
<p>- AFP</p>
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Thu, 08 Nov 2018 12:16:27 +0000malinga167959 at http://www.dailynews.lk Trump petitions SC in effort to kill ‘Dreamers’ programmehttp://www.dailynews.lk/2018/11/07/world/167778/trump-petitions-sc-effort-kill-%E2%80%98dreamers%E2%80%99-programme
<div class="field field-name-field-section field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-articletags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/print-edition" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Print Edition</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Trump administration is seeking the conservative-leaning Supreme Court's endorsement to kill the “Dreamers” programme, which protects about 1.8 million undocumented immigrants who arrived in the United States as children.</p>
<p>Late Monday the Justice Department announced it was bypassing regional Appellate Benches and going straight to the Supreme Court to gain support for its effort to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme.</p>
<p>The move came on the eve of midterm congressional elections in which Trump and Republicans portrayed illegal immigration as a threat to US security.</p>
<p>Solicitor General Noel Francisco said injunctions by three lower courts have prevented the administration from ending the programme, which the Trump administration says has only encouraged people to try to enter the United States illegally.</p>
<p>Cancelling the program could result in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of people who have grown up inside the United States after being brought into the country illegally as children years and sometimes decades ago.</p>
<p>Many of them now have families and jobs of their own and are well integrated into US society.</p>
<p>The government argues that the injunctions have prevented the Department of Homeland Security from moving ahead with Trump's September 2017 order to rescind the DACA policy.</p>
<p>The policy, put into place by former President Barack Obama, protected from deportation 700,000 “Dreamers” registered under the programme and another 1.1 million who qualify but are not registered.</p>
<p><strong>- AFP</strong></p>
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